Unmasked

You don't know the real me, the one I wear behind this mask

You don't know the pain that shaped me or the pain I've known

No one does. No one cares. No one has ever bothered to ask

So now I'm going to remove the façade and let my true self be shown

The me that is worn and weary from sleepless nights

The one quivering in fear as my mask melts away 

You don't know him, you just enjoy the words he writes

This golem behind the mask hides from your ridicule every day

I've been hurt so many times I think I've lost count 

Broken bones and heartaches have ripped me apart 

I've taken the abuse it's an inhuman amount

I'm not as pristine as I was at the very start

I've cloudy eyes above a bearded muzzle

Scars on my head from too many fights

Bones that look more like a jigsaw puzzle

Bags under my eyes from sleepless nights 

A heart stitched back together with old twine

A soul half used and half tattered and torn

I am becoming my own Frankenstein 

Only through my clever poetry am I reborn